On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Robert J. Petry wrote Small excerpt):
> Por exemple, Esperantistes, Idistes, Novialistes, etc. e angle'ses, france'ses,
> etc. have li habilita' leer li lingue Occidental.
If I were a monoglot anglophone who had not studied some French,
Latin, classical Greek, and English etymology (as I have), I think I
would find both Occidental and Interlingua rather heavy weather. I
doubt that my father, who barely got a high school education, would
have been able to read much of either.
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